March For Life, 2010: The Year Abortion Politics Shifted in Canada

This year’s March for Life, on May 13th, attracted approximately 12,500 participants from across Ontario and around the country. That’s an increase of about 500 people from last year. It was a beautiful day as families and young people converged… Read More

Recapturing the Culture’s Mythology

Throughout the course of human history, a civilization’s foundation has largely been built on its mythology, which is sometimes described as a set of stories and beliefs that characterizes a particular culture.  In many respects, the mythology of a culture… Read More

Of Treacheries, Tykes, and the Trinity

The twentieth century has been a brutal century. It is the only century which has had the dubious honour of exterminating the lives of hundreds of millions of human beings because of ideology. Much of the blame for this brutality… Read More

Canadian Bishops Issue Pastoral Message to Mark 40th Anniversary of Humanae Vitae

At the close of their 2008 Plenary Assembly which met in Cornwall, 22-26 September, the Bishops of Canada issued a pastoral letter, titled “Liberating Potential”, which invites all the faithful “to discover or rediscover,” the message of the Encyclical Humanae… Read More

My Abortion Testimony

Many years ago, I had the opportunity to witness directly to two women who were about to undergo abortions. Both occasions were at my place of employment and occurred within months of each other.
The first time I heard that… Read More

An Open Letter to the Papal Nuncio of Ottowa

December 28, 2007
FEAST OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS
Archbishop Luigi Ventura,Apostolic Nuncio to Canada724 Manor AvenueOttawa, ON KIM OE3
Your Grace,
For the past five years, I have been involved as a Catholic activist in the Ottawa area. In this… Read More

The Dangers and Truths that Must Unite Us Now

Modern Catholic apologetics is often associated with historical questions or scriptural exegesis. Theological questions such as justification, the role of the Bible in the Christian Church, and the nature of Church authority, for instance, remain very common and popular topics… Read More

Another Day, Another Dollar, Another One Dead

Spending Power to Spare
Even real estate is not immune. “When real estate companies realized that the gay consumer had disposable income, that was when things started to change,” said Adam Thompson, managing broker at Rainbow Realty Corporation in Elmhurst,… Read More

Towards A Culture of Life

Not Just Crying “Wolf!”
There are also atheistic governments which oppress and persecute the Catholic Church for her teachings on sexual morality. In the past, these governments were primarily communist or fascist in ideology. Today, sadly, most western governments purporting… Read More

The Positive Good of Religious Freedom in the Civil Vision of Dignitatis Humanae

Inviting All, Stumbling None
Third, the Declaration's opponents say that the Church is implicitly approving other religious professions by allowing their followers the civil right to publicly profess their faith. Yet, the fallacy in this reasoning rests in a fundamental… Read More

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